Must-see shopping in San Lorenzo & San Marco

  • Street Doing Vintage in Florence Charming shop with a curated collection of retro secondhand clothing, shoes & accessories.

    Street Doing

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    Vintage couture for men and women is what this extraordinary rabbit warren of a boutique – surely the city's largest collection of vintage – is about…

  • Shop front, Sbigoli.

    Sbigoli Terrecotte

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    This family-run ceramics workshop and showroom, founded by the Sbigoli family in 1857, is littered with hundreds of handmade and painted tableware pieces…

  • Eataly

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    Eataly is a one-stop food shop for everything Tuscan. Peruse beautifully arranged aisles laden with oils, conserved vegetables, pasta, rice, biscuits and…

  • Midinette

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    From the shabby-chic floor – partly original tiles, partly bare paint – to the retro-inspired fashion, this clothing and accessory boutique for women is…

  • Mrs Macis

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    Workshop and showroom of the talented Carla Macis, this eye-catching boutique – dollhouse-like in design – specialises in very feminine 1950s, '60s and …

  • Famarcia SS Annunziata

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    Step into old-world Florence at this family-run, 16th-century pharmacy and herbalist – an elegant mirage of dark wood cabinets, colourful tiled floor and…

  • Conti Stefano

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    This permanent market stall (inside Mercato Centrale) is the place in Florence to taste and buy bitter and spicy, typically Tuscan olive oil on white…

  • Penko

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    Renaissance jewels and gems inspire the designs of third-generation jeweller Paolo Penko, who works with his son in the atelier his grandfather opened in…

  • Desii Vintage

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    A well-curated collection of vintage fashion for men and women fill this twinset of neighbouring boutiques, a short hop, skip and shopping-bag flick from…

  • La Botteghina del Ceramista

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    This unassuming little shop resembles dozens of others, but closer inspection reveals one of the city’s best purveyors of ceramics. Specialising in wares…

  • Scarpelli Mosaici

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    The entire Scarpelli family works hard to preserve the art of pietre dure, puzzle-like marble mosaics, at this lovely boutique and workshop tucked beneath…

  • Scriptorium

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    A mooch around this upmarket boutique is worth it, if only to dip into the utterly cinematic courtyard of 16th- to 18th-century Palazzo Pucci in which it…

  • Bartolini

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    Foodies with even the mildest interest in cooking will find Florence's most famous kitchen shop absolutely fascinating. Don't miss the collection of pasta…

  • Fratelli Alinari

    San Lorenzo & San Marco

    Since 1852 the world’s oldest photographic firm has amassed an archive of some five million photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to digital images…